Mary Welsh

[2] During the First World War, Mary Dalzell went to France as an ambulance driver in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, from October 1918 to June 1919.

[3] In 1939 she was promoted to the senior commandant, based in London; she was transferred later that year to the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF).

[2] She served as inspector-general from 1942 and succeeded Katherine Jane Trefusis-Forbes[4] to become the second Director of the WAAF, from October 1943[5] to November 1946.

[6] In this work, she toured WAAF locations abroad, including Belgium, Italy, and India.

[7] Mary Dalzell married William Lawrie Welsh, an officer in the Royal Air Force, in 1922.

Air Chief Commandant Lady M E Welsh, Director of the WAAF, talking with Leading Aircraftwoman Marjorie Nixon in the Sorting Room of the 2nd Tactical Air Force Photographic Negative Library at Keerbergen, during her visit to the WAAF in Belgium. Wing Officer A Stevens stands to the left of Lady Welsh.
Air Chief Commandant Welsh talking with Leading Aircraftwoman Marjorie Nixon in the Sorting Room of the 2nd Tactical Air Force Photographic Negative Library at Keerbergen, during her visit to the WAAF in Belgium.